No matter what, when you major in theater arts whether you want to write or be a director or design scenery or whatever, when you are a freshman at UCLA then - I guess it's still the same way - you had to take an acting class.

Because nobody goes through life without a scar.

Daddy, when he drank, just became sweeter. There wasn't a mean thought in his body. I've always said he was like a drunk Jimmy Stewart.

I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.

I don't remember a time when I wasn't waiting for a scab either to grow or to fall off my knee.

The first time someone said, 'What are your measurements?' I answered, '37, 24, 38 - but not necessarily in that order.'